Weight Loss - "Pear" Type Diet
- By Chris Hardwicke
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- 01 Jul, 2018
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"Pear" Type Diet
The “pear” shaped body type will generally not be carbohydrate sensitive. Fat storage in the thighs is theorized to be an adaptation to fight-or-flight for pregnant women. By carrying fuel stores in the thighs one can move more efficiently and maintain balance better than if the fetus and the fuel stores shared space.
If you have had a child and are pear shaped, you know that the thighs gained weight during pregnancy and lost during lactation. This storage pattern is not prevalent in “apple” types, who tend to gain above the waist during pregnancy. You pears must watch the total amount of food in order to lose weight. You must familiarize yourself with the Starvation Response (click) section. You must be willing to lose weight slowly so as not to trigger this response. Radical weight loss begets radical storage and a totally unsustainable food intake.
You should choose foods with high satiety and pleasure levels such as fat. That’s right: fat. I do not recommend low fat dieting as fat is comfort food and necessary for your health. It is commonly known that pear shaped people have little to no risk of heart disease as compared to apples.
Remember that fat IS dense and you are watching total food intake but dairy and meat are better eaten with the fat left in. The lean cuts of meat are dry and tough. I strongly recommend free range, steroid/hormone-free meat and dairy. These hormones and steroids cause cancer, not meat. If you find American people who are over one hundred years of age (I have found 30 or so) you will learn that they eat high fat and many still cook with lard. (Most have cholesterol levels around 300.)
If this is contrary to what you have heard, remember the people who determine what is good or bad for you are sponsored by and wholly owned by the largest corporations in the world. Do you think these are meat and dairy companies? How about Coca-Cola, Monsanto Agricultural, PepsiCo., Hershey Foods, General Mills, Post, Nabisco, M&M/Mars, Nestle and Kellog; I can go on and on. Each ONE of these global companies makes more profit than all the meat and dairy farmers in the U.S. added together.
Believe me, they are VERY interested in you focusing on fat-as-the-culprit and they work together and invest millions and millions in bogus research to that end. I am sad to say that some pharmaceutical companies have joined their ranks. Apparently they need more sick people for their business. I digress.
As far as cutting calories, I believe that you should eliminate the worst offenders first. The worst offenders are highly unhealthy fats which have been altered by man through chemistry and prolonged heat. I am referring to deep fried food and hydrogenated fat. (Almost all food in a 7-11 qualifies and happens to be made by the above mentioned companies.)
Then withdraw from sugar. Pears can have an occasional treat as far as weight loss goes. But for some the taste of sugar triggers a period of bad eating. The same is true of the “fake” sugars. Just as some recovering alcoholics cannot drink non-alcoholic beer and others can, you must “know thyself.”
Do not go hungry or you will fire up the starvation response and eat a half gallon of ice cream! You have heard the terms “grazing” and “eat yourself thin” and this will help. Do not eat tiny meals. You must learn patience. Eliminating a few bites of food per meal, sugar, and empty calorie foods with no satiety such as cereals, and white bread (bagels and baguettes) will bring success.
The tortoise always beats the hare at LONG TERM weight loss. Exercise for weight loss serves the pears a little better than the apples but still not well. Learn to monitor your Heart Rate (Heart Rate Monitoring) and do no more exercise than you can sustain over the years and remember that you cannot outrun your fork!
We are fight or flight, hunting and gathering animals. In our DNA are all the tools for energy creation. Through the Kreb’s cycle, we can convert ALL food to energy. We can live in excess of 40 days on water alone. We can walk 300 miles without anything other than water. Though it is occasionally not evident, we are the most highly evolved animals on Earth.
To better understand how we create more energy, we would do well to visualize a spiral. If we follow the line of the spiral we see that it moves up and then levels out, reaching an ever-increasing height. The same is true when we create energy. Our energy levels cannot simply rise straight up. We must also level out to create energy (rest).
If you have been sedentary for a long time and one day you decide to go jogging for a couple of miles, you will be tired for several days after. You will need to rest. Tiredness is the downside of the spiral. From just that one run, you have created more energy that is yours to use AFTER recovery. This increased energy is the upswing of the spiral. If you continue to run and rest, the spiral will go up and level out with the net result being a gain in energy. Our heart becomes bigger and our lungs more toned, the relevant jogging muscles are stronger and more efficient.
To return to our car analogy, our engine has become bigger and stronger. When running a couple of miles no longer challenges us we have ADAPTED to our running regimen. At this point, if we do not run faster, farther or longer we will not continue to increase our energy. Our current level of running will MAINTAIN our current level of ADAPTATION (energy level). If we stop running we will gradually go back down the spiral. If we do not allow for full recovery through proper sleep we will also see a drop in performance. Sleep is an important part of the leveling out of the spiral.
In a nutshell, we must work hard enough to go higher “up” the spiral, and then rest, through which we will adapt to higher and higher levels of energy.
You can feed all the fuel you want to a weak engine and it will still not go faster. You can cleanse the fuel lines all you want and you will not increase YOUR performance if your engine is small and weak.
We have total control of our energy level. We are responsible for creating our own energy. If you do not have any, you have created the weak engine I am talking about. It is very easy to look to cleanses and supplements, but a strong engine can run very well for a long time on junk food, much as putting cheap gas in your car often takes 100,000 miles to have a negative effect.
In our car analogy, we fixed everything but the engine and still we had no better performance. A big difference between human engines and car engines is that if you park your car in the garage for a few years, the engine remains just as powerful. The human engine, however, will actually shrink. Your entire system can get clogged by parking it on the couch too long and not taking it out for a good drive once in a while. If you only drive it to work and back it won’t continue to run well for long. You will see what I mean when you finally “floor it” and black smoke pours out of the exhaust! It may even stall! Quick, before it’s too late, let’s make this thing run right, faster, and longer.
Why don’t you have some coffee, sugar, or fruit? That ought to pick you up! How about an energy drink with some wild sounding jungle herbs? Most of us regularly look for energy in a particular food or drink and we are eventually forced to acknowledge that it does not work.
We have an epidemic of blood sugar problems (hypoglycemia) that affect an estimated 60% of this country. In fact, most companies give workers a break at 10 a.m. and often this is not because they are generous, but productivity has markedly slowed. At this point you have only been at work for two, at most three, hours! Certainly you are not already out of energy. Notice that your break room is filled with caffeine, candy, and salty and sweet carbohydrates in hopes of kicking you back into productivity.
Further notice that the great ‘medication stations”—convenience stores— that are filled from one end to the other with these items! I can fix your “Blood Sugar” problem such that you can fully access energy you already have, but that will NOT create more!
Many alternative modalities promise to remove “blocks” to your energy or increase the flow of energy. Often “cleansing” of some type is recommended. Notice that removing blocks and increasing FLOW are NOT the same as creating MORE energy. For a better understanding of energy, I shall use a car for my analogy.
Let’s say that the tube that carries gasoline to the engine (the fuel line) is clogged. The car runs poorly. When you clear the “blockage” you “increase the flow” of fuel to the engine. While this is important and I often recommend energy-flow work, you will NOT have MORE energy, but full access to the energy you already had.
How about if the carburetor is not mixing the air and gasoline correctly? Again the car runs poorly. Many vitamin and supplements companies make “increased-energy” claims based on improving your fuel mix. While supplements and diet can sometimes correct nutritional deficiencies, you will only have better fuel, not more fuel. This is very important as better fuel is necessary for high performance. Many people in third world countries suffer from malnutrition and cannot perform well. However, you and I are likely getting everything we need for our day-to-day performance and even our “weekend warrior” athletics. Body builders, high school, college and professional athletes may well need supplements if their diet is less than perfect but I’m willing to bet that quality fuel is not your problem.
For now, let’s assume that your fuel system is clean enough and you eat a good enough diet. If this is the case, and most often it is, the cause of your lack of energy is that your motor is small and inefficient and that nothing you put in the gas tank can change that!
